Tests of a Structure for Quasars

Abstract

The model I recently proposed for the structure of quasars (astro-ph/0008064) claims to unify all the emission, absorption and reflection phenomenology of quasars and AGN, and so is heavily overconstrained and readily tested. Here I concentrate on how the model has performed against tests since publication - with many of the tests being reported at this meeting. I then begin to explore how these and future tests can discriminate between this wind model and 3 well-defined alternatives.

6 pages, 1 figure. to be published in "Mass Outflow in Active Galactic Nuclei: New Perspectives" eds. D.M.Crenshaw, S.B.Kraemer and I.M.George, ASP Conf. Proc